Wallpaper 7 - Pretear

I just purchase Pretear, the complete DVD series and I still watching the show as we speak. While I was looking up some information, I was making the next wallpaper. This one is simple but I think I getting better.

Wallpaper 6 - Happy Lesson

This been a while since I have been on my blog, but it has been hard to get everything done all at once. For the time being I got a chance to do another wallpaper. This time is on Happy Lesson. I just picked up this DVD set a couple of weeks ago and I just can’t stop watching it. I’m still doing the research online for web sites and more information.

Leave me a comment about my wallpaper. Get ready for a review of this DVD and I will be getting ready to rack your brains on new trivia later this month.

Angelic Layer Review 1 - Manga

When you hear of people playing with dolls, they may still have that old Barbie doll or their action figure that will not give up. Reading Angelic Layer this give a whole new reason for playing with dolls.
When misaki came to Tokyo to live with her aunt, she just discovered a new game called angelic layer. Astonish about the game, he proceeds to buy a doll called an angel. Confused about purchasing this new toy, she met a man in a lab coat named icchan. She went home and creates her new doll named hikaru and joined the national tournament.
This manga consisted of seven volumes and is good for all ages. I enjoyed every frame from beginning to end. This was created by Clamp, a group of ladies that created such mangas as x/1999, Cardcaptor Sakura, Magic Knight Rayearth and Chobits.
The characters was drawn to some detail in the story was fun to read. I never had so much fun reading these books and to enjoy it this much. I just can’t wait to see the video DVD. The animation from the box cover I seen looked like the character design from Cardcaptor Sakura. For Your information, Hikaru, Misaki’s angel is named after a character from Magic Knight Rayearth.
The story is funny, witty and easy to maneuver through the plot line. The only disappointed thing to me was the shortness of the story. This could have gone and made even more volumes, maybe about an extra five episodes.

Wallpaper 5 - Goddess Belldandy

I watched Oh (or Ah) My Goddess and it kinda inspired me to do this wallpaper. I watched the OAV series a long time ago and now it expanded to a series and a movie. It is too soon to write about the new series and movie, but I will write about the OAV series later on this blog. Right now, here is the wallpaper I just put together. My skills are no match for others who do this but I will keep trying to improve my skills.

Supertitious Sailor Moon?

I know some stuff about superstitions and bad luck such as a black cat crossing your path or to get a role playing Superman, even when you heard about their misfortunes. Now here is another taboo; Sailor Moon! That’s right; this series had to go through constant editing, story changes, characters’ misinformation, missing scenes and different distributors.

The story is about a girl who uses her locket to transform to fight the evil that plagues Earth with the help of her transformed friends called Sailor Scouts and her mysterious man in a tuxedo and a mask. From an evil queen to evil sailor scouts of the galaxies, it was easy to hide some of the content but there is some thing you could not explain to the kids.

I understand changing the character names makes it easier to remember their personality. Some part of the story they changed could make sense for the kids but, an anime fanatic or an experienced otaku can not be fooled. The scene that has my attention was the final confrontation between Queen Beryl and Sailor Moon, each of the sailor scouts were “captured” before the battle. The fact was the scouts were killed, not captured and before season two started, all the scouts are alive.
Relationships were changed as well; one was with malicite and zoycite. They had to shield the kids that this relationship was a man and a woman. This is incorrect, in the manga, they are both men. They put a woman voice for zoycite to presume everyone that this person is female. Another relationship is between Sailor Neptune and Uranus, which the anime claimed that they are “cousins”. This is a woman-woman love and it was covered up by making them cousins. Between Serina and Darien, this consists on their age difference. Serina is a junior high school girl and Daren looks like he is in college. It started out as a crush but they let slide.

The transformation transition was covered up by masking it with sparkles until their gear has been placed. I don’t think they could explain anything in Sailor Moon Stars, where as three guys in their class, who are singers called Three Lights, can transform into Sailor Scouts. Boys 2 Men transforms into Destiny Child? How are they going to explain that!

To any distributors out there, this is your chance to finish the saga once and for all. Buena Vista, ADV and Pioneer will not finish it. What about Funimation, Media Blasters or Urban Vision?

Wallpaper 4 - Ai Amano

I would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year. I took a hiatus from my blog for a few days and I still working on something right now. While I was doing this, I found one of my old wallpaper I had done for a friend and I would like to share it with you.

When I done this wallpaper of Ai Amano, I just experimenting using different Photoshop pallets when I pick this one. Feel free to give me comments.

Shooting Blanks with Early Reigns

The train en route to Sunshine Hill holds six very deadly and beautiful women. On this particular day, these fine women find themselves on a train escorting a man named Spencer through frontier territories. Among his many enemies ride a fearsome gang of notorious bandits, and they're fixin' to take his head along with the train's cache of gold, but that won't happen if these pretty ladies have their way!

This DVD has great animation from the characters to the CG train, but I have to say the story was very short and lack of depth. Maybe with the evolution of the characters with some flashbacks of the past with all the girls, a major “bad guy” in the background and the cooperation of the girls to face all the outcome of the Wild West, plus it doesn’t hurt to make this into a 26 episode TV series.

Right now, Early Reigns is a late drizzle on the DVD Shelf.